by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, September 23. Also check out Trump’s unhinged, unpresidential rant in front of his crowd of Trumpsters in Alabama. Ugh…
- Latest effort to repeal Obamacare on brink of failure after GOP defections
- These Hurricanes Prove That Climate Adaptation Is Not Enough (“Trump only wants to address the effects of global warming, not the cause.” Step #1: do not build ANY more fossil fuel infrastructure, including natural gas pipelines. Fortunately, new fossil fuel infrastructure is no longer needed, given how inexpensive clean energy has become – and will continue to become, as the cost drops even further year after year.)
- How the Latest Paul Manafort Revelations Fit with Trump’s Business Model
- Obamacare Repeal Might Be Dead. Trump’s Effort to Sabotage the Law Is Very Much Alive.
- Federal government notifies 21 states of election hacking (Why didn’t this happen a year ago???)
- If Trump kills the Iran deal, he may give the world another Rocket Man
- Trump Has No Good Reason to Scrap the Iran Deal (“The reasons his administration has put forth are dishonest and will make us less secure.”)
- Trump, rallying in Alabama, wades into a broad intraparty battle (“The president flew in to campaign for Sen. Luther Strange in a hotly contested GOP runoff against Roy Moore.”)
- Ben Carson Splits With Trump, Basically Endorses Roy Moore In Alabama (LOL)
- Trump should leave the madman routine to Kim Jong Un
- Aides warned Trump not to attack North Korea’s leader personally before his fiery U.N. address
- Advertisers are dropping Sean Hannity (“AP looks at the first few weeks of the Stop Hannity campaign” What needs to happen is that advertisers need to ditch Fox.)
- How GOP leaders are using TV to misinform the public about the potential health care repeal (“Interviews with Graham-Cassidy supporters spread misinformation, devolve into misleading deflection”)
- Is Obamacare finally safe? (“The clock may finally have caught up with Republicans after nearly 10 months of failed repeal efforts.” Seriously, they’ve been ranting and raving for eight years now over a law that’s based on conservative ideas like the exchanges, individual mandates, etc., all because the name “Obama” is on it.)
- Why McCain screwed the GOP on Obamacare repeal — again (“His friendship with Lindsey Graham was less important than his grievances with the process.”)
- Dems not declaring victory yet on Obamacare (“Lawmakers and liberal activists aren’t letting their guard down on the Graham-Cassidy repeal bill, even with John McCain opposed.”)
- Betsy DeVos rolls back Obama-era guidelines for investigating campus sexual assault (Make America Rape Again?)
- Trump delivers unhinged rant on NFL, calls Colin Kaepernick a ‘son of a bitch’ (“The president is angry.”
And racist.) - The Post-Literate American Presidency (“Trump is truly the first TV president, and a harbinger of the decline in intelligence to come in U.S. politics.” Yep, it’s “Idiocracy” time.)
- Behind New Obamacare Repeal Vote: ‘Furious’ G.O.P. Donors (“As more than 40 subdued Republican senators lunched on Chick-fil-A at a closed-door session last week, Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado painted a dire picture for his colleagues. Campaign fund-raising was drying up, he said, because of widespread disappointment among donors over the inability of the Republican Senate to repeal the Affordable Care Act or do much of anything else.”)
- Senate’s Warner Faults Late U.S. Notification of Election Hacks
- Warner, Kaine air concerns about Graham-Cassidy health care bill before McCain announces opposition
- Virginia’s leaders have a serious case of the slows on climate change
- To Northam and Gillespie: We matter, too (“So how can we encourage more regionally relevant discussion? When both candidates drop in for their last debate at UVA Wise next month, we can strongly suggest that panelists — including reporter Carmen Forman from The Roanoke Times — resist temptations to ask about those federal responsibilities the candidates can’t do much about and focus on what really matters to us here.”)
- Morrissey drops lawsuit against Wilder, is ordered to pay $1,000 in sanctions
- Dominion abandons plan to build power lines near ex-slave’s descendants in Northern Virginia (“In a state filing, the utility company said lines along Interstate 66 are more feasible. The decision follows local resistance to an approved route in Prince William County.”
Shows that resistance works.) - Loudoun supervisors decide not to ask state for authority over Confederate statue
- Late entry Simonds still far behind Yancey in fundraising
- Region contributing much more to Gillespie campaign
- NRA protest in Fairfax filmed for upcoming national documentary
- NAACP wants slave auction block removed in downtown Fredericksburg
- Editorial: Does a slave auction block really belong in downtown Fredericksburg?
- August-like temperatures will continue into next week
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